Clifford G. Gaddy

Former Brookings Expert

Clifford Gaddy, an economist specializing in Russia, was a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program's Center on the United States and Europe. He is a co-founder and senior scientific advisor of the joint Russian-American Center for Research on International Financial and Energy Security, based at Penn State University.

Gaddy earned his doctorate in economics from Duke University. He has held teaching and research positions at Duke, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins University. He has traveled widely in Russia and been a guest scholar at various research institutes in the country, including the Institute for Economic Forecasting in Moscow, the Kostroma Agricultural Institute, and the Perm Technology Research Center. In the mid-1990s, he was an advisor to the Russian finance ministry and regional governments on issues of fiscal federalism for the U.S. Government’s Tax Reform Oversight Project for Russia.

Clifford Gaddy, an economist specializing in Russia, was a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program’s Center on the United States and Europe. He is a co-founder and senior scientific advisor of the joint Russian-American Center for Research on International Financial and Energy Security, based at Penn State University.

Gaddy earned his doctorate in economics from Duke University. He has held teaching and research positions at Duke, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins University. He has traveled widely in Russia and been a guest scholar at various research institutes in the country, including the Institute for Economic Forecasting in Moscow, the Kostroma Agricultural Institute, and the Perm Technology Research Center. In the mid-1990s, he was an advisor to the Russian finance ministry and regional governments on issues of fiscal federalism for the U.S. Government’s Tax Reform Oversight Project for Russia.

Experience

Past Positions

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings

Visiting Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University

Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics and the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (CERES), Georgetown University

Research Associate, Berkeley-Duke Project on the Second Economy of the USSR

The idea that [Nemtsov's] murder might lead the Russian population at large to rebel against the climate of hatred and intolerance and demonisation of the liberal, Western-oriented democratic opposition is a deep illusion.